the darkness has not overcome it

1 i associate you with peanut m&m's.
2 silly perhaps, but there is a SSAA french christmas madrigal that i think your voice would sound amazing on. i'm not even going to try to spell the french words here, but i'll be happy to show you the music for it if you are interested.
3 lemon-vanilla pudding
4 mainly i think we need more opportunity to manufacture moments like that.
5 my first memory of you was my first night gaming. i never spoke to you. you were playing nemoria at the judicial conclave in smd, judging prince schultz. my clearest memory of you is from nonclave. we sat and chatted ic in the kitchen...but i remember thinking OOC, "i need to get to know this lady better."
6 a mule deer. they jump really high when the are spooked. there is something wild and graceful about them.
7 how do you function in a government job and still remain true to who you are? ( i ask because i have always had trouble with this, not because it seems antithetical to you)

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*waves hand*

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1 you are one of the few people who really wants the truth from people when you ask for it. also i say people are "the bees knees" now, because of you.
2 buckaroo bonzai
3 to hell with jello. bring on the red bean ice cream!
4 i have had MANY serious conversations with you that have been both interesting and important...but i'm not big on creating inside jokes just for the hell of it. there are many conversations i could bring up...but none with tag words.
5 sitting on a stone wall outside our site in DC. you impressed that i had tape in my backpack so we could leave a sign on the door. you also the first person who was friendly to me. i was grateful.
6 sea lion: smart, serious sense of fun, very social and still has that predator thing goin' down.
7 who are your role models and why?

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2: Another classic movie, that. Can't beat it.

7: I have a good number of people I admire. My perennials include:

Henry Rollins. For always doing his own thing and not giving a damn what anyone else thought.

Ice-T. His influence on modern music cannot be overstated, and surprisingly enough, he's a teetotaler.

Captain America. He's every bit the role model Superman is, but with no powers or gadgets. Just brains, training, luck, and endless courage. Oh, and a kick-ass shield.

Bill Clinton. Even though he's done a lot of things I disapprove of, no modern political figure is simultaneously revered and reviled as much as he...not even Bush Jr. That means he did something right. ;)

Mark Gruenwald. He wrote some of the most influential comics of my childhood, and always made them interesting without stooping to dumb gimmicks, except for the time he turned Cap into a wolf. ;)

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my turn! my turn!

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1 you always surprise me. you always have a perspective on things that is bigger than i could have imagined.
2 i need a hero...by frou frou...go figure.
3 ginger
4 ziplock containers....and btw. do you want him chloroformed or as-is? chloroformed would be much more easily transported....
5 brian introduced us (after talking you up something serious in the car on the way to game) and you looked awfully serious....little did i know...
6 chicadee. you have that kind of energy, class and resiliance.
7 if you had to live on one food for the rest of your life (regardless of nutritional value) what would it be?

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1. what can i say? i'm like a box of chocolates ;)
2. good pick. i like that song.
4. ooooh! just as long as he's in working order, that's all i care about. because you know, your toys HAVE to work.
5. did he talk me up something fierce? what the heck is that supposed to mean? did i deliver the goods?
7. i cry shenanigans! that is totally unfair. really, it depends on the time of the year that you ask me that. probably ice cream. mmm... ice cream... since it comes in oh-so-many flavors.

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I'm going to find every one of these and post my name...

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1 i like you better than i have any right to, considering how little time we've actually spent within 10 feet of one another.
2 trust in me - holly cole
3 mint-banana
4 i can think of a dozen...all too personal for me to put on lj.
5 abby introduced us IC at nonclave last year. i wanted to read all of your buttons, but my character wouldn't let me....a clearer memory is of laughint on the phone with you half the night in may.
6 python...patient, wise, unexpectedly powerful. see # 2
7 who's responses to this list of questions do you feel the most comfortable with?

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*blush* :)
As for your answer: I am truly comfortable with all the answers I've received. I'm a very accepting person, and everyone has their own rights to an opinion, even if it is embarassing. I think I'd have a lot more of an issue if this was a public, face to face forum however. At which point, I'd probably have run and hid away from your answers!

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your turn

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1 i miss your beautiful, long hair. you always had better hair than just about everyone.
2 heather's, believe it or not. not because you were a "heather" but because you SURVIVED all that crap.
3 apple-mint jello.;)
4 electric lemonade
5 heh. you may laugh or cringe. i was six when i met you in SACC. you were one of the cool kids who went over to haycock and i remember you chatting with liz lane.
6 vixen
7 what is the quality you value most in your friends?

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I'm in for this one. ;)

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i already answered you once, dammit!

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Cheater - I actually wanted the answers :P

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I was hoping she'd answer before figuring it out. ;)

And you! LJ Stalker! Is there no end to your perfidy? ;)

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I admit it. I am duly chastized. I'm now going to stalk you, and you alone, for your bold yet spot on accusations.

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YOU wanted the answers? but they were not about you. my answers for him are the same as they were the first time.
silly utahraptor...

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It was actually in reference to Martin's comment. I wanted the answers to all the meme things I responded to. He was just trying to beat my record of how many people I responded to in the first place :P

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Go!

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1 i met your artwork before i met you. there is a james dickey poem that reminds me of you....i think it's called the last wolverine.
2 latex dominatrix by tuscadero
3 cinamon
4 next time we close out.
5 i spoke to you the first time at nonclave, but i only got a feel of who you were at chiaroscuro when we actually talked. i thought you were mad-sexy and very interesting.
6 a crow. and it's not just because i can picture you eating someone's eyeballs.
7 what is the source of your drive?

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I must find this poem...

The source of my drive? Hum. Freak grain thresher accident? Actually, I have no idea. For a long time it was both anger and revenge. Now I am not so sure....kinda seems to be a self-sustaining thing. And I hate to be bored...

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found it

FOR THE LAST WOLVERINE

They will soon be down

To one, but he still will be
For a little while still will be stopping

The flakes in the air with a look,
Surrounding himself with the silence
Of whitening snarls. Let him eat
The last red meal of the condemned

To extinction, tearing the guts

From an elk. Yet that is not enough
For me. I would have him eat

The heart, and, from it, have an idea
Stream into his gnawing head
That he no longer has a thing
To lose, and so can walk

Out into the open, in the full

Pale of the sub-Arctic sun
Where a single spruce tree is dying

Higher and higher. Let him climb it
With all his meanness and strength.
Lord, we have come to the end
Of this kind of vision of heaven,

As the sky breaks open

Its fans around him and shimmers
And into its northern gates he rises

Snarling complete in the joy of a weasel
With an elk’s horned heart in his stomach
Looking straight into the eternal
Blue, where he hauls his kind. I would have it all

My way: at the top of that tree I place

The New World’s last eagle
Hunched in mangy feathers giving

Up on the theory of flight.
Dear God of the wildness of poetry, let them mate
To the death in the rotten branches,
Let the tree sway and burst into flame

And mingle them, crackling with feathers,

In crownfire. Let something come
Of it something gigantic legendary

Rise beyond reason over hills
Of ice SCREAMING that it cannot die,
That it has come back, this time
On wings, and will spare no earthly thing:

That it will hover, made purely of northern

Lights, at dusk and fall
On men building roads: will perch

On the moose’s horn like a falcon
Riding into battle into holy war against
Screaming railroad crews: will pull
Whole traplines like fibers from the snow

In the long-jawed night of fur trappers.

But, small, filthy, unwinged,
You will soon be crouching

Alone, with maybe some dim racial notion
Of being the last, but none of how much
Your unnoticed going will mean:
How much the timid poem needs

The mindless explosion of your rage,

The glutton’s internal fire the elk’s
Heart in the belly, sprouting wings,

The pact of the “blind swallowing
Thing,” with himself, to eat
The world, and not to be driven off it
Until it is gone, even if it takes

Forever. I take you as you are

And make of you what I will,
Skunk-bear, carcajou, bloodthirsty

Non-survivor.

Lord, let me die but not die
Out.

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Ok. I love this poem...it now resides as a favorite.

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i think you would like this poet in generel. he's got another poem called "the eye beaters" about blind children who beat their own eyes because they can't see.

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Oh, why not?

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1 you have been important in my life since i met you. even when we weren't communicating so much. i sometimes feel like i have always known you.
2 anything by smashing pumpkins...but particularly anything on ava adore...can't IMAGINE why that would be *looks innocent*
3 grapefruit
4 goldfish are sexy
5 my first clear memory of you is the night i pounced on you and.....we talked all night....yeah....really i have MANY memories with you. some of which got me into trouble.
6 mongoose
7 what are your overall feelings about new york city?

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zankoku-zen.livejournal.com

*poke*

you should put yourself up on analysis on my blog.

because the answers could surprise you!

or maybe not.

*toddles off*

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illusionstar.livejournal.com

preparing for crazy-good answers from you...

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i will ALWAYS pick you. also i talked to your mom today. we had a nice chat.

1 i want to juggle on the beach at dawn with you again.
2 so many! but mostly you've got a friend by carol king and anything by vnv nation
3 no jello. just spaz juice.;)
4 eh he-he-he yimbo!!!!
5 my first clear memory of you is from when i was nine and you and natalie and your dad and i were walking up the stairs of his townhouse...not very interesting....a better memory is of shaving the backs of our heads in my basement. it was so much cooler.
6 a llama...this will likely change tomorrow, but today you remind me of a llama. because they are moody, and interesting, and fiercely protective...and bcause i like to say llama.
7 have you ever outright told a friend you didn't want them in your life anymore? why/why not?

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Oh oh oh me next

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heheheh
1 i would like more intense conversations with you.
2 timekiller - project pitchfork...or dark city
3 rasberry lemon jello
4 i don't have any of these for you.
5 i first got to talk to you at abby's house after the first night of nonclave. i was surprised that you were so friendly. but i liked the next day better when we actually got a chance to talk.
6 a wolf
7 what is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you?

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my turn

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1 did you ever get that book back that i left with rod for you?
2 fixing a hole - beatles
3 grape
4 i am afraid i don't have one of these for you either.
5 my first memory of you is of picking you up in brian gilbert's hot black car and running off to smd. you guys talked WAY over my head because i didn't know any game jargon, but you were nice enough to explain some of it.
6 i'm sorry, but that eyore suits you too well, a donkey.
7 when was the last time you had a perfect day?

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Kei Hawk Rose

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